By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

The name was Emily Dickinson. Inclosed with the letter were four poems, two of which have been already printed,--"Safe in their alabaster chambers" and "I'll tell you how the sun rose," together ...

In addition to the book being ranked among the year’s best for 2024, “The Letters of Emily Dickinson” has also received significant critical attention and glowing reviews from The New Yorker, The ...

It's wrong to think of self-esteem as a quality that depends only on what we say and do. Self-congratulation is no substitute for the kindly regard of others.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...

They’d banish us, you know. So begins an eight-line poem by Emily Dickinson. Written in 1861 and published posthumously in 1890, the work spent decades in a drawer, along with 800 other writings.